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...PREMISE: This award-winning play, composed of nine episodes, tells the life of a criminal in a post-modern world of mechanical fragmentation. Imaginative and witty, it questions society's influence on our actions and personal identity. Is our environment an assembly line for our identities...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, Angela Marek, Diana R. Movius, and Cara New, S | Title: Fall Theater Preview: October | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Institute's mission to study "women, gender and society" may surely result in the production of worthwhile scholarship. It may also result in an outpouring of Leftist, post-modern nonsense. Only time will tell, but surely our enthusiasm must be mitigated when we consider the unfortunate track record of gender studies...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A New Era for Women | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...theorists and a stunning collection of original Mapplethorpe prints. In fact, the clever allusion in the name to the Greek fount of Western society betrays (some would say obfuscates) an adherence to, as one club member argues, "an enlightenment ethos which struggles to maintain its integrity in a fractured post-modern society...

Author: By Nicholas J. Pinto and Matthew N. Stoller, S | Title: Shopping for Final Clubs | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...favorite photograph by far was "Yet Another Post-Modern Sunset," in which various bugs look over a stone wall at a vivid sunset of oranges and reds. Norfleet is simultaneously poking fun at both the post-modernists and herself. But she is also creating a striking contrast between the fiery imagery of the sunset and her final piece, "Untitled," where Norfleet's insects appear embedded in a glacier, with only a few appendages exposed to the light...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Red Sunsets, Emerald Beatles | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Allocating funds to new Women's Studies department with 30 fresh professorship rather than an institute would do the same, allowing students of both genders to benefit by offering an incentive to study for credit, to read post-modern feminist theory, to discuss Army Tan novels, Juliet Schor sociological tracts and Simone de Beauvoir. In this way, Radcliffe would stay true to its mission to "advance society by advancing women" of all ages, while prioritizing undergraduate education...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: A Modest Proposal | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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